The Republican journal., 1887-02-24
Literary News and Notes

Dorcas, an illustrated magazine of woman.
| handiwOrk, is published at y Ne>ey street
New York and is well worth the modest sub
>cription price of 80 cents year
Bedford, Clarke K Co.. OF Chicago. will pub
fish by subscription the authorized Life o
General John a. Logan hv George Franc
| Dawson. The work will be fully illustrated.
A new edition of Archbishop Whate,
| English synonyms under the title. ''Engli>l
synonyms Disseminated" is in press, an,
nearly ready for publication by Lee Il Sher
ard, Boston.
In preparing for the approaching East!
season. Lee 4 Shepard are about to publish
several finely illustrated POEMS bound in Pal
atine boards, with appropriate designs. rai>ec
| gold titles. knotted With satin ribbon, an,
neatly boxed.
The March number OF The Popular >ccnc,
| Monthly will contain portrait of the late
| Professor T.. l.. louman>. engraved OH stcc
by SchIecht. The likeness is considered re-
markably vivid. while the execution of the
work is much superior to ordinary book-platcs
The New England Magazine has portrait
of Rev. John Cotton and an illustrated sketcl
of 1.-The Father of Bo>ton;" Fair r,htied
and the Evangelist Moody" illustrated; Can
oeing in kenncbec County, Maine" by {. $
IIichborn; historical sketches. stories. poems
and the usual departments. Published at 81
Bromteld street. Boston.
The February number of Common Scoo
| Education opens with an article Oh "Child-
ren'> Fancie>." by Elizabeth Porter Gould
| There are further articles on School Room
Work; Arithmetic in Primary schools; Meth
| obs in Zoology Teaching; Manners and Morals,
and much else of interest and value to the
teacher. William A. Murray, publisher, ;c
Rrown1ied street. Boston.
The Swiss Cross. Of which the February
number has Just arrived, improves upon a,-
quaintance, and makes good its claim that a
thoroughly scientific magazine may he 50 pub
li>he'l a. TO be highly attractive to un>cientlc
readers. The number opens with 4 charming
~ simple article from the pen of Ernest Inger-
soil discussing the subject of Beads of Dew.
The Swiss Gross is published by \. ID. {. Hold
ges, 4, Lafayette Place. New York. Suh>crip-
ton price, S1.'lo
Petcrson's Magazine for March is already
before us-as usual, ahead of all it, contenl-
porarie>. 1t has an illustrated article on Queen
Victoria. this being the ''Jubice" or tiflieth
year of her reign. There is a very tine steel
engraving. after famous picture in the last
Paris Salon: doube->iZr colorcd fashion,
plate: Il colorrd design for Il tidy on Java can
vas; and some fifty other engravin@> of fash
ion, workable designs. etc. We have not
space to notice half the good things in the way
of reading, but would call attention especially
TO The Mountain WIZARD" Il story of remark
able power and pathos.
J. Fitzgerald. les Chambers street. New
York, publishes in pamphlet form, price -
cents. The Morphine Habit, by Dir. b. Ball.
of the Paris Faculty of Medicines. This is Il
highly interesting treatise on Il subject of ever
increasing Importance. The Use of narcotic
>imulant> is spreading to an alarming extent
throughout the civilized world. and in particll-
lar the "morphine habit" is becoming almost Il
fashionable vice. The subcutancous injection
of morphine is so nearly painless, and its eff
fects are so instantaneous and grateful to
the sufferer from neuralgia or other pains. that
one willingly becomes the slave Of the drug.
But "who>o enters here leaves hope behind
The morphine habit is disastrous to mind and
body alike. This work by DIR. Ball is timely,
and deserves to be read and pondcred by every
one.
Thomas Wentworth liig@nson, the author
Of Young Folks History of the United
States, "Atlantic Essays ''Short Studies
from American Authors "'The Monarch of
Dreams" etc., has been persuaded by many
teachers and scholars, to reprint. in one vol
ume ito be published by McssrS. Lee and
shepard), his Atlantic Monthly article, which
was published several years since, giving prac-
teal advice to contributors to the press, and his
recent brief essay, ''IInts on Speech Making. .
which appeared in IIarper's Magazine. The
volume will be convenient manual for those
who desire information for the preparation of
articles for the press. or on the writing of
books, and as to the most elcctual methods
used in slecch-lnaking. The authors reputa-
ton is a sufficient guarantee of the books cX-
ceence.
The numbers of The Living Age for Febru-
airy 9th and 18th contain. China. by the Mar
qulS TSeng. Asiatic; Jubilee RciynS in Eng
land. Nationals The Zenith of Conservatism.
by Matthew Arnold, and Rural Life in Russia,
Nineteenth Century; Benvcnuto Cclini'> Char
atter. by J. Arlington Symonds. and The
Present Position of European Politics, Fort
nightly: The Land of Darkness, Backwood :;
The seventh Earl of Shaftcshurv: Incidents in
his Life ana Labors, Leisure Hour; Some Rec
objections of Charles Stuart Calverey. Temple
Bar; French Finance, Pho Nono's Will. Lord
lddesleigh, and The Progress of Savage Races
Spectator; An Ancestor of the Gar and Farm
Life i'll the North a Century Ago. st. James
Gazette; Some Narrow Escapes, All the Year
Round; Ipecacuanha Cultivation in India. Ma
ture; The Excavation Of the Great Sphinx,
Times; On Jury, Globe; with instaments If
The Strange Story of Margaret Beauchamp'
and 'Rchard Cable, the Lightshipman," and
poetry.
ID. LothrOp & Co., Boston, have published
"A New England Idyl,' by Belle c. Greene.
The author of this pleasant story has already
achieved distinction among the younger Amer-
can writers, notably through her novel A New
England Conscience, which was very widely
noticed year ago. The present story. though
not SO elaborate in its structure, is far pleas
anter reading. 1t is a genuine study of New
England character by one who shows unmis-
taxable familiarity with it. The opening chap
tiers describe IA typical country farmhouse, such
as one may find anywhere in the hiil-towns of
New Hampshire or Vermont, with its little
household of girls and boys. and its humble
hIlf ,i.t ,.IS w.,
of home life drawn by the author are true to
nature. and without eXaggeration. The main
interest Of the story centres in the two girls of
the family-iester and Rosy-both of whom
are charming in their freedom from atfectation
and for the sincerity and earnestness with
which they take up the cares and duties of
life. They are fatherless and motheress hay
ing not only themselves to care for, but the
responsibility of looking out for the younger
members of the family. How they did it,
how they succeeded in overcoming the various
obstacles which lay in their way and what
that success was, is happily told. The story is
not only interesting, but it is wholesome in its
tone and helpful in the lesson it teaches